Sarcoidosis and coronary bypass surgery: a case report.
Sarcoidosis, a chronic granulomatous disease with unknown etiology and pathogenesis, affects the skin and many other organs and has a course characterized by remissions and relapses. We describe a patient with sarcoidosis, which we diagnosed retrospectively after we had difficulties in harvesting the left internal thoracic artery because of giant and disseminated mediastinal lymphadenopathies on the anterior thoracic wall during urgent coronary artery bypass surgery.
Yildiz
Cenk Eray
CE
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. ceyildiz@yeditepe.edu.tr
Ergenoglu
Mehmet Umit
MU
Yerebakan
Halit
H
Ekici
A Isin Dogan
AI
Selcuk
Nalan
N
Kucukaksu
Deniz Suha
DS
D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*